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CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 • Half a Job Is Not Enough 2 • Why Has Part-Time Employment Continued to Grow? 3 • Two Theoretical Frameworks 4 • Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs 5 • Implications ofthe Distinction Between Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs 6 • How Businesses Set the Level ofPart-Time Employment 7 • Cycles and Trends 8 • The Case for New Policies APPENDIX: A FORMAL MODEL OF THE CYCLICAL ADJUSTMENT OF PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT IN NONCYCLICAL INDUSTRIES NOTES REFERENCES INDEX Copyrighted Material Vll IX 1 13 34 47 70 91 121 158 189 199 207 217 v Copyrighted Material ...

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